i get my usual eye checks for diabetes done every year. Well last October I did mine...and several months later (i think in March...so a couple of months ago) I got a letter from them saying that I need to go back as the photographs taken were inconclusive.
But I called them to book it for later as I went abroad at the time.
Anyway, so today I get a call about the rebooking and the admin lady at the Willesden clinic said that apparently my "notes" on their system say that I needed to get a split lamp examination done as the photos before were inconclusive?
This is freaking me out!!! Does this mean my eyes have major problems. Is there any way the photos could be inconclusive the last time and to be safe they want me to have a split lamp...or is it a certainty that there's some big problem.
My eyesight issues scare me as much as death itself
Please let me know what you know to be true. Don't sugar coat anything...at the end of the day I need to face up to whatever I have to.
Just wanted to add that, in the unlikely event of there being something wrong with your eyes, at least it has been picked up early, giving the best chance of successful treatment.
And if you're thinking "split lamp" sounds scary, i expect they mean "slit lamp" which is just a device for examining the eye by shining a narrow beam of light at it (the beam passes through a slit, hence the name ) No worse than the examination your optician or GP has probably done with a hand-held ophthalmoscope.